Table of Contents ; Introduction ; Recognition: An Introduction ; Recognition as a New Perspective ; Figaro's Scar as the Signature of a Fiction ; Chapter 1: Operatic Enlightenment in Die Zauberflote ; Enlightenment as Metaphor ; Tamino's Recognition: Wann wird das Licht mein Auge finden? ; Pamina, Papageno, and the End of the Opera ; The Scandal of Recognition ; Chapter 2: Recognition Scenes in Theory and Practice ; Recognition in Classical and Contemporary Poetics ; Recognitions of Identity in Mozart ; Disguise and Its Discovery ; The Quest for Self-Discovery ; What Recognition Brings in the End ; Chapter 3: Reading Opera for the Plot ; Plot in Contemporary Poetics and Opera ; Plotting in Le nozze di Figaro ; Mozart and the Plot that is Well Worked Out ; Chapter 4: Sentimental Knowledge in La finta giardiniera ; La vera and la finta giardiniera ; Reading Opera for the sentiment ; Sandrina as Virtue in Distress ; Count Belfiore, Madness, and the Restorative Recognition ; Chapter 5: Don Giovanni: Recognition Denied ; The Problem of the Ending ; Denouement and lieto fine ; Recognition Prepared and Denied ; Life without the Don ; Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Cosi fan tutte ; Resisting the Ending ; Reading Cosi for the sentimen ; The Language of Sentimental Knowledge ; Vorrei dir, Smanie implacabili, and Questions of Parody ; Positions of Knowledge ; Chapter 7: Fiordiligi: A Woman of Feeling ; The Ideal of the Phoenix ; Fiordiligi, Ferrarese, and Come scoglio ; Per pieta: Recognition Denied ; The Triumph of Feeling over Constancy ; Chapter 8: La clemenza di Tito: The Sense of the Ending ; The Language of clemenza and pieta ; The Politics of Tyranny ; Vitellia's Transformation ; Sesto's Conflict ; Tito's Clemency ; Afterword ; I called him a Papageno ; Beyond Mozart ; Works Cited
